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  1. Interesting choice by Miami, pretty telling about what the coaching circle thinks of the Miami job. Good luck to JD though, cool too see guys who are loyal to the players get a shot, similar to Saarloos at TCU
  2. LSU getting #7 will hopefully nudge everyone involved with baseball from donors on down. If we are going to judge Pierce against his peers, we are going to have to put him on a level playing field. High school recruiting is on the up swing in a big way. Next step is making sure we are in a position with NIL to do what LSU did this year. Maybe not on the same scale, because I doubt Texas will ever have 1 million to throw around in a single season in the near future, but at least at the level where we can go out and get an elite arm when we feel like everything is in place to make a run at a title.
  3. Not all that surprising if true
  4. Another coach turning down the Miami job… Difference landscape today and although Miami is a good job, it doesn’t really offer anything you can’t get at most other major universities.
  5. And the beauty about baseball is that 20 run ass beating doesn’t mean shit tomorrow. No doubt Skenes pitches tomorrow but I would be curious if they start Thatcher Hurd for as long as they can and then turn it over to Skenes.
  6. Not going to continue to hound the point but you evaluate the upside and what you project someone to be. That’s what I’m saying. Everybody now knows that Skenes is a generational talent, nothing about pitching well in the Mountain West says “sure thing”. If that’s how it worked then Chase Burns would have dominated this year after posting a 2.91 ERA his Freshman year. There isn’t a single program that isn’t calling Burns first if they feel like they have a shot to land him. Skenes had 112.1 IP with 126 strikeouts against average at best competition. Burns had 152.1 IP with 217 strikeouts against the best competition in baseball. The same points you are making for Skenes you could make for Burns had Chase Burns spent the first 2 years of his career in the Mountain West.
  7. You and everybody thought Skenes was going to add 5 mph to his fastball in one offseason and be able to hit triple digits with it 40+ times in one outing? I don’t think anyone saw that type of improvement coming. He had 96 strikeouts in 85 innings in a 1 bid conference whose best team UNLV finished 111 in the RPI. The two best teams he faced were Texas and Iowa. In those 2 starts he went 7.1 IP, 14 hits, 10 runs (8 earned), 2 walks, and 12 strikeouts. Good for a 9.82 ERA. I know he was playing both ways but to be as dominant as he has been coupled with the jump in competition, no one saw coming. LSU did with Skenes what you do with anybody, which is bet on their upside, he wasn’t a sure thing. Burns had an average Sophomore year that followed him being a 1st team Freshman All American and 3rd team All American in 2022. Just saying people always evaluate with hindsight.
  8. Skenes wasn’t Skenes until this year. His last year at Air Force he was topping out at 95. Burns had a phenomenal Freshman year, struggled a little bit this year but that was true of pitching across the board for the most part. Biggest thing he struggled with was keeping the ball in the park. Allowed 10 HRs in 72 IP, still coupled that with 114 Ks to just 22 walks. He is the best pitcher in the portal.
  9. Easy decision this weekend, go Gators. Don’t let those cock suckers get #7
  10. So to sum up your argument, play good teams = hard, play bad teams = easy. Most teams dominate the easy part of their schedule that is what you are supposed to do. Texas played plenty of bad teams this year as they should. Can’t play a wire to wire meat grinder. You can cherry pick bad losses on any teams schedule. West Virginia lost 2/3 to Georgia Southern (27-29), lost to Richmond (27-28), split with Hofstra. Oklahoma “battled” Stanford splitting a series with their wins being by a combined 8-5 and Stanfords 2 wins being by a combined 39-16. Same Oklahoma team who lost a home series to 28-30 California Baptist. Im not going to trade researched essays back and forth but you can pick apart anyone’s resume. Bottom line is they won 81% of their non conference games as a conference. Not a martyr for the SEC by any means. Auburn hosting was a joke, everybody clowned on that decision. How do they get preferential treatment?
  11. I’m not trying to rain on your rant parade but what exactly constitutes a tough opponent? In the same page of this thread you belittled A&M beating CSF because they went 3-7 in their final 10 games while giving TCU credit for playing them? TCU had multiple games against sub .500 teams. 3 against 23-31 Florida State, 1 against 21-37 Rice, 3 against 24-25-1 San Diego, 1 against 10-40 Northwestern, 1 against 24-26 Tarleton State. TCU played 10 non conference games against teams with sub .500 records. Florida played 15.
  12. Yeah anybody trying to argue that the SEC isn’t the best conference in baseball is just delusional. The worst team in the SEC (Ole Miss) went 6-24 in the SEC and 19-5 against the rest of the country. They won 81% percent of their non conference games as a conference. The ACC won 77%, the PAC 12 won 70% and Big 12 won 66%
  13. There are 2 other schools in the ACC that I can see it being a revenue sport for. Clemson and Wake Forest if they can keep close to their current form will be able to. Texas is going to be sitting in a geographic sweet spot in the SEC being that bridge from west coast to east. USC and UCLA will both take hits moving to the B1G. The other Pac poses Arizona, Arizona State, Stanford, and Oregon State will take hits from the diminished Pac. Have to be ready to take advantage come 2025 in baseball. Glad the Texas One Fund is already being progressive now so hopefully it’s humming for when we make the jump to the SEC
  14. Not to mention there are so many good players at every level of college baseball, there will be a sweet spot that is reached at some point in terms of return on investment and how much teams are willing to spend. It’s worked for LSU this year up to this point mostly because of Skenes. I think going forward you will definitely start to see bidding wars when talents like Skenes hit the portal. Bats are much easier to find obviously. Would like to see Texas use the majority of the NIL funding to build the pitching staff ever year.
  15. Glad he is a righty because the prospective lineup next year is looking real heavy with lefties.
  16. Don’t see that very often
  17. Projected 1st round pick Hurston Waldrep to Oral Roberts tonight:
  18. Will be interesting to see how much more rope Okie State gives Josh Holiday. 1 CWS appearance in 10 seasons (not including 2020). Meanwhile former player/alum Ryan Folmar is walking into your brand new ballpark with a small religious school in Tulsa and beating you on its way to Omaha.
  19. Would be in Texas best interest to focus out west in the transfer portal and try to poach kids looking to play big time college baseball where there are more eyeballs. Similar to what we did with Guillemette, Hurley, and Carlson.
  20. 2 one run losses, took a 5-3 lead over Florida to the 9th. Just couldn’t close it out. Two teams have to go 0-2 every year.
  21. Probably ends up at Virginia with Kyle Teel entering the draft
  22. He said EK was a plus defender. Just because you don’t steal bases doesn’t mean you aren’t fast or have elite speed. If college baseball kept track of bunt singles as a stat he probably leads the country. Just this past weekend I remember an instance where Stanford threw over on him at least 7 times in one AB. Eric had elite range in the outfield, was a very good glove, average bat whose average was inflated because of the hits he stole with his speed. But enough rambling because the main premise of your argument is that Mitch was forced out and told he didn’t have a spot on the team next year which didn’t happen given Pierce’s actions and comments to the public towards Mitch. Eric Kennedy had moments where he could have transferred and he didn’t, Mitchel Daly is being presented that same opportunity and HE CHOSE to move on. That simple.
  23. None of us will know because we weren’t in the room. Given how many opportunities Daly was given to turn it around, I would imagine the conversation was more of one that told Mitch they loved him but that he would have to compete for a spot next year and that there would be a very real possibility that he was a backup middle infielder. Daly going into his Senior probably didn’t want to risk that happening in his final year of college baseball. I would put it at a less than 1% chance that the staff sat Mitch down and straight told him they didn’t have a roster spot for him. This really isn’t that news worthy other than we are losing a good person and teammate because of the nature of competition. Wish Mitch the best.
  24. Steve Rodriguez and Woody Williams are mediocre??
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